The Console Wars…I was there!-2 December 19, 2007
Posted by 54071 in : Video Game Reviews , trackbackHi there…I know, it’s Tuesday, not Monday…but lets get to it shall we.
Coleco Vision
Coleco Vision was released in 1982, but I did not acquire this ” Next gen ” piece of hardware till a year later, and I have to admit that the only game I remember playing for this console was a game that I just loved in the arcades around this time called MR.Do
Mattel Intellivision
Here was a console I had several games for at the time I owned it, which was the same year I owned the Coleco Vision. I will say before we go any further, that the Coleco Vision had the better games of these two consoles, but truth of the matter was Intellivision…just had more games!
My one favorite game for this system at the time was ” Burgertime “, in which you were a Chef, putting together…wait for it…that’s right, Hamburgers, and yes in my youth I had worked at McDonald’s, which might just explain my fascination with this particular game. I just loved putting those burgers together before the time ran out.
and than came…
Nintendo
The Nintendo Entertainment System
And what a time it was!
Well, me me anyway. My introduction to Nintendo’s simple powerhouse came in 1988. The NES had already been on the market for five years before I picked it up used from a comic book store as a bundle with two games for around $100.
The two games were Super Mario #1 & The legend of Zelda. The latter was the game that got my wife into video games, she totally owned Legend, and finished it within a month ( if memory serves me well ), and I had to wait for Zelda Two for her to be happy with the NES again.
Now I just want to say that this was kinda the ” Silver Age “Â of the video game industry, and at least at the time it was special for anyone who was playing video games at the time, and mind you this was after the ” Video Game Crash ” of 83 or 84 depending on who you ask.
My next post will focus on the first of the NEW consoles released in 1993 by a fledgling company called ” The 3DO Company.
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